Vengeance of the Returner

He felt his body energized and pumped up a bit. Out of all the times, this ability is invoked now. He tried raising his body repeatedly and he was incapable of doing it. But, fortuitously, his body was able to move a bit, unlike his latest try.

Tear droplets flowed down his cheeks. Gritting his teeth he commenced crawling from the Swampy place he was in.

"I want to live!"

He grumbled to himself. His eyesight was blurry and he wasn't able to recognize whatever prevailed ahead. He pushed his body by crawling. He wasn't able to stand up nevertheless he wasn't able to move by crawling because of his severely damaged body. But, he crawled gradually enduring the pain. He hoped that he died rather than enduring this excruciating pain.

But, he was yearning to enact his revenge and that's what propelled him to the extent of enduring the killing pain.

'I will torture those fuckers! For that, I need to live!'

He crawled brushing the ground for an hour barely holding on to his consciousness. At some point, he closed his eyes while crawling subconsciously. And after two hours he fell unconscious. Three messages popped up.

[Endurance has been raised 2 points.]

[Defense has fallen by 2 points.]

[New Particularit Tenacious has been manifested.]

***

"Haha that was entertaining"

A man commented.

While sitting on a Red metal throne filled with skulls and various patterns and representations. His face was concealed as he was seated in a hall filled with absolute darkness and eleven others also had their faces hidden in the Shade of darkness. All that was visible were their matte black metal seats and their silhouette figures.

They were looking at a hologram that was projecting Nix's moves.

A man opposite the throne started speaking.

"Haha Yes that was fun but, remember letting him live for our entertainment would get his sword on our neck."

The man who was on the throne frowned.

" Tch, Whatever He will seek us and crave for more power and turn more monstrous. If everything goes by my plan. He will join us."

***

Nix woke up in a startle screaming to the top of his lungs.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Two hands came towards him and restrained him. Nix calmed down and began scanning his surroundings. He was shocked as he saw the Draconians and Sara.

They appeared to be still injured as they were wearing bandages. When he inspected his body he had also had his body wrapped in bandages and his lower body was covered with trousers while his upper body wasn't covered. And there were three torn cloaks in a corner.

They were in a cavern filled with bats hanging down from the ceiling with their eyes shut and the interior hardly had any light in it.

Tyga, Tundra, and Sara all the three of them looked at Nix with a face filled with remorse.

"Where are we?"

Nix questioned with a reactionless face while staring at them. He was critically scarred and mentally wounded by the things that happened to him.

Tyga hesitated a bit and answered.

"Nix we are still in the Saragame forest and I am sorry for not helping you."

Nix quickly tried to raise his body which was rather futile as he tripped. Tundra and Sara sped towards him and helped him.

Nix started conversing.

"Let's get out of this place and finish what we started."

"But, we need to rest."

"I promised you people right? Let's finish these once and for all. I have my own things to do."

All the three of them stared at Nix.

"But.."

Nix interjected before they could finish.

"I don't need fucking need buts. I have my own business to do for that I need to finish your shitty requests."

Tyga and Tundra started speaking with a regretful face.

"Nix We are sorry for what happened to you and we are sorry for dragging you into this."

If he wished to betray them he wouldn't have suffered terribly.

They continued their speech.

"We don't know why you didn't betray us or why you are still giving priority to the promise you made but you have our respect. We Tyga and Tundra will remain loyal to you as a servant for you, an honorable warrior!"

With that, they kneeled pledging to Nix. Nix had his own purposes for not betraying them or why he didn't go back on his words. But, he was in bewilderment since he knew that Draconians are a race filled with pride who possess high power and combat ability and they develop to become more powerful as they grow old.

An individual Draconian in Nix's age boasts stats level and combat ability similar to a level four Human and this information came to Nix's knowledge via Tyga and Tundra when they were traveling and such creatures bowing down to a human in an extremely rare occurrence.

"Stand up we will move now!"

Sara who looked at the scenario in amazement opened her mouth.

"Nix we need to say this. Firstly you are unconscious for about two days and next, we need to heal for an extra two days."

"How can I heal faster?"

"Circulate your mana to the injured parts. It may take two to three days even though it won't be effective enough to completely heal from wounds."

Nix responded.

"Okay then let's wait here for two to three days to heal ourselves."

Nix instantly closed his eyes and began circulating mana throughout his body spreading mana into the injured places. He didn't do any job other than healing himself while the others gathered food and some essential works needed to be done. All Nix did was eat, sleep, and circulate mana for three days.

Nix rose from his seat. All he was able to do was move now. He didn't seem to be in any condition to fight.

"So, can we start moving?"

Others seemed to feel helpless but they had to start moving to rescue.

"Yes, Nix!"

They exited the cavern they were in and commenced marching towards the border of the forest. When they began walking there wasn't a single Mutino or any other animals that would be useful for them to travel quickly.

"Tyga Tundra you both said that we would ride back using a Mutino. But, we haven't found a single one yet so what's your idea now?"

Tyga responded to Nix's question first.

"Nix we are sorry to say this but, we did our best in searching for a Mutino which turned out to be a failure."

Tundra opened his mouth.

"Nix we will get a Mutino when we pass through the desert."

"Hmm"

After that, they kept on marching at a steady pace and went to the border of the forest. Nix turned back and cast his gaze at the forest. He went through hell here, He got abused in this damned forest. His eyes were burning in anger and his red veins became visible.

Gritting his teeth he turned back and threw his gaze on the hot unending dry desert filled with sand. And the sun in the sky was burning fiercely letting out its bright rays.

Nix and the others marched without resting for a few hours and took a few minutes as a break and continued their journey to Barani. Fortuitously, their journey was progressing sleekly. Nix was wearing damaged armor while the three covered themselves with the torn cloaks which Nix bought from the cunning loli girl.

Soon the desert started to generate cold air and the sky grew dark as it explained that it was night. They placed their weapons and belongings on the ground for spending their night there. All Nix had as a weapon was the proto blade which was fortunately strong enough and undamaged after going through such a heavy assault. Nix felt hesitant to remove it, so he kept it to himself.

The Draconions set up the fire and sat before it and Nix and Sara accompanied them. Everyone was indulging in a conversation while Nix kept on staring at the fire. He was going through mental agony as he replayed the scene at the Saragame forest.

Others didn't disturb him or insisted him to be cheerful; they knew why he was like that. They found him battered and nude while smelling foul with terrible scars

And wounds that explained everything that happened to him.

'Why did they target me? Why should I suffer like this? What did I do wrong? Who sent those? We should have just went to Barani. All the equipment was destroyed it all ended up into a trashy metal scrap. This why I asked if will it be okay to steal in an unknown city. Why did I even end up there? Is this planned and the draconians and succubus are decoys of someone? Though I checked their details with truth eye they don't seem bad yet, Particularities and data can be twisted? Am I becoming paranoid?'

He had many questions inside his head.

'No! No, I don't need to think about those things. All I need to do now is to become more powerful, that's what will help me. I will make those who made me suffer to go through hell'

He gazed at the waving fire intently while thinking these things inwardly. He drifted his gaze upon something that came rushing towards them from a distance.